The state House is offering employees an early retirement incentive to help save some money. The program is offering employees one-grand per year they’ve worked there up to 25 years. To qualify, workers must have been with the state House for at least five years and must be willing to leave by October 22nd. There are about 15-hundred people who work for the state House across P-A.
Cash will no longer be accepted at the Pennsylvania Turnpike’s Gateway tolling booths in Lawrence County starting this fall. The Turnpike Commission announced as of Oct. 27, drivers going through the booths at mile marker 2 coming from Ohio will either pay using EZ-Pass transponders or have their license plates photographed and invoices sent by mail. The Commission has been implementing cashless tolling on sections of the highway for the last several years. The Beaver Valley Expressway toll road and the Findlay Connector already were converted to cashless.
(Photos taken by Sandy Giordano)
THE ALIQUPPA SCHOOL BOARD HAS HIRED A NEW GIRLS BASKETBALL COACH. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO WAS AT LAST NIGHT’S BOARD MEETING AND FILED THIS REPORT. Click ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…
(Photo of Dr. Shelly Moore provided by CCBC)
THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF BEAVER COUNTY TODAY HAS ANNOUNCED A COUPLE OF LEADERSHIP APPOINTMENTS. CCBC TODAY ANNOUNCED THAT IT HAS APPOINTED DR. SHELLY MOORE AS VICE-PRESIDENT OF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS/ PROVOST AND ELAINE STROUSS AS DEAN OF THE SCHOOL OF HEALTH SCIENCES. BOTH OF THEIR APPOINTMENTS BECAME EFFECTIVE JULY 1ST.
Beaver County prosecutors say they’re pursuing more charges against a man who’s accused of taking naked pictures of group home residents. The district attorney’s office says new evidence has surfaced that appear to link Zachary Dinell to more victims. Dinell is accused of taking explicit photos of people with special needs at the McGuire Memorial Home in Daugherty Township.
YOUNGWOOD, Pa. (AP) — A woman has asked a judge to dismiss charges that she beat her mother and shaved her head because she thought the older woman was listening to the Pittsburgh Steelers’ game too loudly on the radio. Lawyers for Delores Amorino filed legal documents Wednesday that claimed her now 19-year-old daughter is responsible for assaulting the 78-year-old woman. The filing comes a few weeks after a judge found Amorino was competent to stand trial but her daughter wasn’t.
Lawrence County District Attorney Josh Lamancusa says that he will seek the death penalty against 43 year old Keith Burley, Jr of Edingburg. He was arrested Tuesday in Youngstown following the stabbing death of eight-year-old Mark Mason at a home in Union Township. At least two other juveniles witnessed the fatal stabbing. Burley is being held in the Mahoning County Jail and is awaiting an extradition hearing today.
WEATHER FORECAST FOR THURSDAY, JULY 11TH, 2019
TODAY – SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE
MORNING BECOMING MORE WIDESPREAD THIS
AFTERNOON. A FEW STORMS MAY BE SEVERE.
HIGH – 85.
TONIGHT – SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. LOW – 62.
FRIDAY – INTERVALS OF CLOUDS AND SUNSHINE. HIGH – 81.
SATURDAY – ABUNDANT SUNSHINE. HIGH – 86.
SUNDAY – MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGH – 84.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Labor Secretary Alex Acosta is planning to make a statement about his handling of a sex-trafficking case involving now-jailed financier Jeffrey Epstein. Acosta was a federal prosecutor in Florida involved in a secret 2008 plea deal that let Epstein avoid federal prosecution on charges of molesting teenage girls. Democrats are clamoring for Acosta’s resignation now that the matter has been reignited with new charges against the wealthy hedge fund manager.
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Soccer Federation President Carlos Cordeiro says female athletes “deserve fair and equal pay.” Fans of the World Cup champion U.S. women’s national soccer team chanted “Equal Pay!” as Cordeiro spoke at a celebration of the team at New York’s City Hall. Cordeiro said: “We hear you, we believe in you, and we’re committed to doing right by you.”